Reading 'The L Word' : Outing Contemporary Television.
Title:
Reading 'The L Word' : Outing Contemporary Television.
Author:
Akass, Kim.
ISBN:
9780857716187
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Series:
Reading Contemporary Television
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Regular Cast -- Foreword: The Letter 'L' - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Preface - Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- Introduction - Sarah Warn -- Part 1: Lesbians on TV -- 1. Sex and the Clittie -- 2. The L Word Under-whelms the UK? -- 3. Interview with Guinevere Turner -- 4. New Queer Cable? The L Word, the Small Screen and the Bigger Picture -- Part 2: Looking -- 5. The (In)visible Lesbian: Anxieties of Representation in the L Word -- 6. How Does a Lesbian Look? Stendhal's Syndrome and the L Word -- 7. Lipstick Leviathans: Demonologies of the Lesbian Body in the L Word -- Part 3: Loving -- 8. Heteronormativity and the L Word: From a Politics of Representation to a Politics of Norms -- 9. Straight-up Sex in the L Word -- 10. The Chart -- 11. 'L' is for 'Long Term': Compulsory Monogamy on the L Word -- 12. Why is the L Word Sexy? -- 13. What is a Straight Girl To Do? Ivan's Serenade, Kit's Dilemma -- Part 4: Labels -- 14. Is She Man Enough? Female Masculinities on the L Word -- 15. Interview with Katherine Moennig -- 16. The Other 'L' Word: Representing a Latina Identity -- 17. The Glamour Factor and the Fiji Effect -- 18. Radical Acts: Biracial Visibility and the L Word -- 19. Hot Stuff: Music as a Language of Lesbian Culture -- 20. Interview with Erin Daniels -- The Essential L Word Episode Guide -- Scribe Grrrl -- Film and TV Guide -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
The L Word immediately captured international attention when it debuted on American screens in January 2004. Given its standing as the first television drama series to focus on lesbians,_x000D_ it attracted controversy and devotion from within the lesbian community and beyond - and continues to make headlines and draw an enthusiastic fan base trading gossip through websites and weblogs. The groundbreaking primetime drama from Showtime is about a group of lesbian and bisexual friends living and loving in Los Angeles, and challenges traditional_x000D_ notions of relationships, queer lifestyles, gender identities, race and ethnicity, and sex and sexuality. Reading 'The L Word' is the first book about this television phenomenon, and offers a rich variety of explorations of the show and its impact on popular culture.With an Introduction_x000D_ by Sarah Warn, the founder of leading lesbian entertainment website AfterEllen.com, and foreword by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, this collection brings together leading academics,_x000D_ feminist critics, scholars and award-winning journalists to discuss The L Word through a range of topics like third-wave feminism, queer theory, bisexuality and sex as well as how The_x000D_ L Word has been marketed to and received by its audience. There is a complete episode guide as well as a series of interviews with the actors and the writer Guinevere Turner (Go_x000D_ Fish). _x000D_ Reading 'The L Word' addresses both humorously and analytically what The L Word says about lesbians-and what both lesbians and straights have to say about The L Word._x000D_ 'A must-read book about the must-see lesbian sex drama that everybody loves but some love to hate.' -Jane Feuer.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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